From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 22 17:58:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC9F837B422; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010921161635.GMSR13666.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:16:35 -0700 Message-ID: <3BAB67BA.B0C1A149@home.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:15:54 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Andresen Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein , Jordan Hubbard , kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> <200109211518.f8LFITg54534@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <3BAB6513.F6251E77@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Andresen wrote: > > "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > > > > Note that the set of people affected is going to be "people who can't do > > anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO > > images to work with". I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to > > be pretty small...if they don't have Internet access, how'd they get the > > ISO images? > > Probably more often that you'd expect. I know I had to install 4.4 in > our lab (which blocks most net access) full of old machines. Fortunatly > I have a 4.3 ISO sitting here that I just grabbed fdimage from and > went on, but it did seem like a rather noticable oversight. > > What about the boot managers in that directory? Certainly people will > want > to dual boot their new FreeBSD installs? > > -- > \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org > |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer > _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message How about a new directory called .../Fixed_Isos Rob. -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.members.home.net/europax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message